‘They make it almost impossible for us to do business with them, and yet they send their cars back into the United States,’
At last, a glimmer of post-Brexit trade-deal hope. If Trump is going to make Renaults, Fiats, Mercs and Beamers 25% more expensive in the US, that’s surely a golden opportunity for our car industry in years to come? Ah. Good point. We don’t have a car industry…
“The reason our stock market is so successful is because of me. I’ve always been great with money, I’ve always been great with jobs, that’s what I do”, said the man himself about (of course) himself. And, yes, one tweet, if we’re still allowed to use that old Woke term, on Truth Social can indeed send markets firmly up as well as down.
A welcome by-product of the mayhem, for those with mortgages rather than or as well as savings, is the reduction in long-term interest rates to which it seems to be leading, at least on this side of the proverbial pond.
In ‘times like these’ old stagers like me put on our ‘seen it all before’ hats, but there’s a reason for that. However unprecedented it may all seem, we really have seen the resulting stock market tumbles and plummets many a time.